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aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Channel3 | NYC | $120–200K + 0.5–1.5% equity | Full-time

Channel3 is hiring a Founding Engineer to help us build a database of every product on the internet.

Our API lets any AI app or agent add shopping capabilities and earn commission on sales. As commerce moves from in-store, to online, to AI-native, this universal product catalog becomes critical infrastructure. We see Channel3 becoming as foundational to AI commerce as Stripe is to payments or Plaid is to fintech.

We just closed a $6M seed round led by Matrix (Apple, FedEx, AfterPay) with participation from Ludlow (Honey, StockX), Y Combinator, and Paul Graham. We're live with 500+ developers on our API and millions of products processed daily.

We're looking for engineers who want direct ownership of technical decisions, love solving hard problems at scale, and want to help build our team and culture from the ground up.

This role is in person, 5 days a week, in NYC. Unfortunately, we cannot sponsor visas.

Apply at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/channel3/jobs/cWHfEPZ-...
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
All in-house! We don't visit sites with paywalls, but we do take lots of measures to avoid rate-limits.
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Yes, but something like Stripe Order Intents (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVQwIZYk9UM) would obfuscate this poor UX and make it really easy!
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Would you share more about what data you'd be concerned about here?
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Thanks for the feedback. We felt that $7 is reasonable. With an average online order value of $180 and average commission of 5%, you need to make just 1 sale in every 1000 to earn.
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Awesome!
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Exactly! We hope to be able to do this soon.
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
We've spoken with many merchants who are super excited about this use-case, actually! We think the web is opening up – e.g. Exa, Parallel, OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, etc. all do the same, and it seems like this agentic future demands it.
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Oops! Responded to the wrong comment.

It's just two of us and we're working 120 hour weeks... don't have time for everything! We love feedback, it's super helpful.
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Yeah, physical products for now. No groceries! We also use vector search + lots of LLMs, but not surprised you'd see funny search results here. We're working around the clock to make this better.
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Thanks for the note!
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
That's a crazy coincidence! Had no idea.
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Thank you for the feedback. I tried "dog collar" and see what you mean -- looks like the blurry photos are super-zoomed-in headers from the website.

For this product (trychannel3.com/products/6PYSvW8), looks like we have a good photo for it, but also grabbed a couple we shouldn't have.

We're working around the clock to make this better and will add an AI-check to make sure the images we select are correct.

Hope you can check back soon and see some progress!
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Hi, we just pushed up a fix. Looks like our vector results were acting up. Please let us know if you're getting better results!
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Hi, we just pushed up a fix to search. You should see much better results for "red high top sneakers under $40".

The price errors stem from a bad sync between our product database and OpenSearch index. We're working on fixing this now. Let us know what you think!
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Hi, we fixed this bug and you should see better results now. I'm getting good results for "men's wallet" and "plain white pillowcase". Try it out and let me know what you think!
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
We love to support our developers! Excited to see your progress
aschiff1
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Too handsome?